In Spite of Opposition to New Ideas, the Church Did

Multiple Choice

In spite of opposition to new ideas, the church did embrace some findings, including:

A) Copernicus' ideas of retrograde planetary motion.
B) Robert Boyle's establishment of the Royal Society to study the natural world.
C) the Gregorian calendar based on the new astronomy, as issued by the pope.
D) Galileo's explanation of the sun in the Letter to the Duchess Christina
E) Newton's ideas of gravity and thermodynamics